Ruth Elizabeth Stiff
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History and knowledge, especially about the Earth, are my passions. I enjoy putting my thoughts to paper and I always try to encourage self-motivation and love for life. LIVE AND LOVE LIFE!
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"Maison Lucile"
On 27th July, 1904, the best of London society crowded into a large, grey-walled Georgian room in Hanover Square, with an empty platform at one end. Music played, lights flashed and the Lords and Ladies sat in their chairs, looking at their programmes. Six stunning ‘models’ swayed, unsmiling, across the stage, wearing such delights as “Spring’s Delirium” and “Pleasure’s Thrall”. Although remarkably familiar for us today, this was a brand new ‘event’ in 1904. This piece of theatre was watched over by its creator, the 41 year old Lucy Duff Gordon, whose business 7 years later became “Maison Lucile” — the first international house of Couture.
By Ruth Elizabeth Stiff3 years ago in Styled
Nell Gwyn
“Let not poor Nelly starve”, Charles II. She was a famous actress who caught the attention of a King, becoming his mistress and giving birth to two sons by him. She was a jolly woman and not greedy, asking the King for only £500 a year, who also gave her a pension of £4,000+ a year. She herself never received a title, but her eldest son did. She was born into a poor family but rose to become Charles IIs most famous mistress. She was Nell Gwyn.
By Ruth Elizabeth Stiff3 years ago in Humans
